A look at the most common medical bill coding errors  

Category: Coding

Paying medical bills is a huge hassle and expense for companies. With the cost of providing workers compensation coverage for employees rising, it's more important than ever that employers have a cost control process in place to minimize expenses and maximize savings. One important aspect of any cost control plan is medical bill reviewing.

The medical billing process is confusing. Every service that a hospital or doctor renders has a specific billing code assigned to it. Then, depending on the circumstances under which the service was rendered, billing modifiers may need to be used to adjust the final charges billed to the payer. Unfortunately, billing departments often misuse modifiers - usually accidentally but in some cases in an effort to get more money unfairly out of payers - and this leads to overcharging the payer. It's important that employers are able t...